Aram
Aram was given to 91 boys in 2025, #1,771 among boys’ names; 3,365 Americans have been recorded with it since 1912 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,880 Americans named Aram and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (86% of everyone recorded); the median is 21 years old and half are between 9 and 38.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Aram by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Aram?
#1,771 among boys’ names, 2025
Aram rose from #2,113 in 2015 to #1,771 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 34.4 to 53.3 per million.
111 babies in 2024, the peak
Aram peaked in 2024, when 111 babies were given it (105 boys, #1,620 among boys’ names). The 91 births of 2025 are 82% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 91 | #1,771 | 53.3 |
| 2024 | 105 | #1,620 | 60.9 |
| 2023 | 100 | #1,694 | 58.5 |
| 2022 | 77 | #1,981 | 44.1 |
| 2021 | 75 | #1,981 | 42.9 |
| 2020 | 72 | #1,977 | 41.7 |
| 2019 | 101 | #1,625 | 56.3 |
| 2018 | 64 | #2,170 | 35.2 |
| 2017 | 89 | #1,736 | 48.1 |
| 2016 | 75 | #1,939 | 39.5 |
Every recorded year (108)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 66 | #2,113 | 34.4 |
| 2014 | 59 | #2,254 | 30.7 |
| 2013 | 56 | #2,280 | 29.6 |
| 2012 | 55 | #2,327 | 29.0 |
| 2011 | 48 | #2,546 | 25.3 |
| 2010 | 43 | #2,789 | 22.4 |
| 2009 | 48 | #2,586 | 24.2 |
| 2008 | 41 | #2,881 | 20.1 |
| 2007 | 63 | #2,140 | 30.4 |
| 2006 | 54 | #2,313 | 26.3 |
| 2005 | 54 | #2,204 | 27.0 |
| 2004 | 59 | #2,020 | 29.7 |
| 2003 | 47 | #2,271 | 23.8 |
| 2002 | 54 | #2,016 | 27.8 |
| 2001 | 53 | #2,003 | 27.3 |
| 2000 | 49 | #2,045 | 24.9 |
| 1999 | 47 | #2,024 | 24.5 |
| 1998 | 41 | #2,202 | 21.5 |
| 1997 | 49 | #1,888 | 26.0 |
| 1996 | 41 | #2,068 | 21.6 |
| 1995 | 44 | #1,913 | 23.1 |
| 1994 | 44 | #1,889 | 22.8 |
| 1993 | 38 | #2,087 | 19.4 |
| 1992 | 36 | #2,124 | 18.0 |
| 1991 | 30 | #2,341 | 14.8 |
| 1990 | 30 | #2,310 | 14.6 |
| 1989 | 34 | #2,062 | 17.0 |
| 1988 | 31 | #2,030 | 16.2 |
| 1987 | 29 | #2,054 | 15.5 |
| 1986 | 31 | #1,919 | 16.8 |
| 1985 | 39 | #1,616 | 21.1 |
| 1984 | 42 | #1,482 | 23.3 |
| 1983 | 27 | #1,957 | 15.1 |
| 1982 | 31 | #1,814 | 17.1 |
| 1981 | 31 | #1,812 | 17.3 |
| 1980 | 31 | #1,810 | 17.4 |
| 1979 | 40 | #1,488 | 23.2 |
| 1978 | 33 | #1,655 | 20.1 |
| 1977 | 23 | #2,067 | 14.0 |
| 1976 | 24 | #2,002 | 15.3 |
| 1975 | 18 | #2,364 | 11.5 |
| 1974 | 15 | #2,549 | 9.5 |
| 1973 | 34 | #1,464 | 21.8 |
| 1972 | 26 | #1,729 | 16.0 |
| 1971 | 20 | #2,054 | 11.3 |
| 1970 | 25 | #1,744 | 13.5 |
| 1969 | 30 | #1,465 | 16.8 |
| 1968 | 16 | #2,035 | 9.2 |
| 1967 | 14 | #2,142 | 8.0 |
| 1966 | 16 | #1,968 | 9.0 |
| 1965 | 14 | #2,181 | 7.5 |
| 1964 | 14 | #2,212 | 7.0 |
| 1963 | 15 | #2,115 | 7.4 |
| 1962 | 11 | #2,511 | 5.3 |
| 1961 | 16 | #2,070 | 7.5 |
| 1960 | 12 | #2,427 | 5.6 |
| 1959 | 10 | #2,669 | 4.7 |
| 1958 | 20 | #1,768 | 9.4 |
| 1957 | 9 | #2,832 | 4.2 |
| 1956 | 7 | #3,230 | 3.3 |
| 1955 | 7 | #3,212 | 3.4 |
| 1954 | 8 | #2,955 | 3.9 |
| 1953 | 9 | #2,714 | 4.6 |
| 1952 | 5 | #3,757 | 2.6 |
| 1951 | 8 | #2,852 | 4.2 |
| 1950 | 8 | #2,778 | 4.5 |
| 1949 | 6 | #3,315 | 3.4 |
| 1946 | 5 | #3,545 | 3.1 |
| 1944 | 8 | #2,636 | 5.9 |
| 1943 | 5 | #3,563 | 3.5 |
| 1942 | 9 | #2,533 | 6.5 |
| 1940 | 7 | #2,888 | 6.0 |
| 1939 | 7 | #2,843 | 6.3 |
| 1937 | 11 | #2,207 | 10.3 |
| 1936 | 6 | #3,163 | 5.8 |
| 1935 | 11 | #2,251 | 10.6 |
| 1934 | 5 | #3,696 | 4.8 |
| 1933 | 7 | #3,017 | 7.1 |
| 1932 | 16 | #1,851 | 15.3 |
| 1931 | 10 | #2,478 | 9.6 |
| 1930 | 15 | #1,966 | 13.7 |
| 1929 | 20 | #1,674 | 18.6 |
| 1928 | 18 | #1,826 | 16.3 |
| 1927 | 11 | #2,529 | 9.8 |
| 1926 | 14 | #2,195 | 12.6 |
| 1925 | 11 | #2,600 | 9.9 |
| 1924 | 19 | #1,843 | 16.8 |
| 1923 | 24 | #1,553 | 21.9 |
| 1922 | 28 | #1,397 | 25.7 |
| 1921 | 16 | #2,064 | 14.5 |
| 1920 | 8 | #3,223 | 7.5 |
| 1919 | 11 | #2,515 | 11.2 |
| 1917 | 19 | #1,696 | 20.5 |
| 1916 | 12 | #2,267 | 13.5 |
| 1915 | 19 | #1,603 | 22.4 |
| 1914 | 9 | #2,278 | 13.7 |
| 1913 | 7 | #2,287 | 13.7 |
| 1912 | 5 | #2,560 | 11.6 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Aram a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 3,365 Americans recorded as Aram, 2% are girls and 98% boys. In 2025 it went to 91 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Aram: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Aram, and how old are they?
2,880 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 86% of the 3,365 Americans ever recorded as Aram. The median Aram alive today is 21 years old; half are between 9 and 38.
The 2020 Census counted 3,834 people named Aram (250 women and girls, 3,584 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,431 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.6 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 20 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 119 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 337 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 531 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 813 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,060 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Aram born?
The states with the most babies named Aram are California, Texas and Illinois, with 91% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 35 | #745 | 2.7× |
| Texas | 9 | #1,768 | 0.6× |
| Illinois | 6 | #1,141 | 0.0× |
| Ohio | 5 | #1,276 | 0.0× |
Where Aram is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Aram is most over-represented in California: since 1912 it was given 2.7 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Aram with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 5,843 babies since 1880, Aram is the most given (58% of them). In 2025 it was given to 91 of their 281 babies (32%), the second most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Aram
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Aram and names like it
- Compare Aram and ArhamBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sAram peaked in 2024.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Aram since 1910.
- The top names of 2024The year the most babies were named Aram.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Aram alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with AMost given first.